White shark (Carcharodon carcharias), Thinned satellite data (PSAT and SPOT), 1:2 observation:pseudo-absence ratio, Cropped to 750 m isobath, all covariates (u and v become vel_mag), evaluated using all metrics

Random Forest Nowcast and Forecast

Boosted Trees Nowcast and Forecast

Maxnet Trees Nowcast and Forecast

GAM Nowcast and Forecast

GLM Nowcast and Forecast

Metrics

Metrics by model type

model_type	accuracy	boyce_cont	roc_auc	tss_max	brier_class
rf	0.9468085	0.9480911	0.9896313	0.9400922	NA
bt	0.7765957	0.9324007	0.8440340	0.5433308	NA
maxnet	0.6303191	0.9118039	0.7532082	0.4415643	NA
gam	0.7433511	0.9904366	0.7990511	0.4572453	0.1675203
glm	0.6502660	0.8608753	0.7233343	0.4155786	0.1909835

Variable Importance